Critical Social Policy

Papers
(The TQCC of Critical Social Policy is 2. The table below lists those papers that are above that threshold based on CrossRef citation counts [max. 250 papers]. The publications cover those that have been published in the past four years, i.e., from 2022-08-01 to 2026-08-01.)
ArticleCitations
Building power from below: Dispatches and lessons from movement building in a postindustrial city in Northern New Jersey in the United States23
Book Review: The Marketisation of Welfare to Work in Ireland: Governing Activation at the Street Level by Michael McGann17
Devolution and the difficulty of divergence: The development of adult social care policy in Wales14
The bordering of care: How exclusions from family support programs impact undocumented mothers and their young children in Canada14
The multiple and competing functions of local reviews of serious child abuse cases in England13
Banishment12
Book Review: Somo Sisters Tapestry: A Tale of Cultural Change, Shocks and Life in the UK by 12 Women by WODIN, with an introduction by Julie Sylvia Kalun11
Hegemony and settler colonial subjectivities: The censure of the Israeli Union of Social Workers (IUSW) by the International Federation of Social Workers (IFSW)11
Book Review: A Political History of Child Protection: Lessons for Reform from Aotearoa New Zealand by Ian Kelvin Hyslop10
Book Review: Substances, Welfare and Social Relations: Breaking Stigma, Pursuing Hope by Amber Gazso10
Countering marginalisation through ‘cooperative democracy’: The case of worker co-ops in Japan10
Care full deliberation? Care work and Ireland's citizens’ assembly on gender equality9
Can a ‘structural competency’ approach improve the safeguarding of diverse marginalised communities from exploitation?9
Engineering the filial self. Negotiating the moral construction of filial piety at different government levels in China9
Book Review: Care and Capitalism by Kathleen Lynch7
The (un)just transition in ecomodernist climate policy: Critical analysis of social inequities in the US Inflation Reduction Act7
Book Review: Understanding Mental Distress: Knowledge, Practice and Neoliberal Reform in Community Mental Health Services by Rich Moth7
Government through clanship: Governing Ethiopia’s Somali pastoralists through a community-based social protection programme6
Book Review: Safeguarding Young People Beyond the Family Home: Responding to Extra-Familial Risk and Harms by Carlene Firmin, Michelle Lefevre, Nathalie 6
Social solidarity and deservingness6
Net-widening, gap-filling, and shortcut justice: The practice of Community Protection Notices to regulate anti-social behaviour6
The absence of anger: ‘Lived experience’, emotions, and framing techniques in UK anti-poverty work6
De-bordering and re-bordering practices at the intersection of gender and migration. A multi-site exploration of specialized services for migrant women experiencing violence in Italy and Sweden5
Book Review: Fighting for Water: Resisting Privatization in Europe by Andreas Bieler5
Book Review: Visiting Immigration Detention, Care and Cruelty in Australia’s Asylum Seeker Prisons by Michelle Peterie5
Standing on the frontline: Exploring representational work for unaccompanied minor asylum seekers in Norway5
Suicide prevention as biopolitical surveillance: A critical analysis of UK suicide prevention policies5
Book Review: Women, Welfare and Productivism in East Asia and Europe by Ruby CM Chau and Sam WK Yu5
Risks and representations: Creating consensus narratives about risk with pregnant women involved with child protection systems in Aotearoa New Zealand and Scotland4
Understanding the interplay of financial change, debt, and lone parenthood in the UK: A secondary mixed methods analysis4
Between happy futures and precarious presents: The promise and pitfalls of work for single mothers on the margins in Australia4
We need to talk about necessitous economic migrants: Disrupting ‘legitimacy’ in UK migration discourse4
What the Dutch benefits scandal and policy's focus on ‘fraud’ can teach us about the endurance of empire4
Book Review: Hunger, Whiteness and Religion in Neoliberal Britain by Maddy Power4
Claiming reproductive citizenship through interactive need interpretation: The case of temporary labour migrant women in Japan3
Migrant women becoming ‘stronger together’ through the arts: Creating Ground3
Book Review: It’s Not Where You Live, It's How You Live: Class and Gender Struggles in a Dublin Estate by John Bissett3
Book Review: Academic Women: Voicing Narratives of Gendered Experiences by Michelle Ronksley-Pavia, Michelle M. Neumann, Jane F. Manakil and Kelly Pickar3
Inheriting discriminatory socio-political landscapes as ‘undeserving’ disabled people: The legacy of common health problems and the future for long COVID3
The resilience trap: Deepening the ‘risk shift’ in social policy via the crisis and resilience fund3
Depoliticising race: A critical policy analysis of the UK's CRED 2021 report3
Productive and hazardous: Investing in families in social policy3
Attacking transnationalism and citizenship: British Bangladeshis, family migration, and the postcolonial state3
A constant threat? A narrative exploration of the relationship between benefit receipt, mental distress and the threat of homelessness2
South African government responses to Trump's Global Gag Rule: Silence, ignorance, and avoidance2
Co-production in syringe service programs: Implementation in a changing organisational field2
Red flags! Parents’ perspectives on data led policy and practice in family intervention2
Student antiracist activism and institutionalised equality, diversity and inclusion (EDI) in UK universities2
Distanciation as a technology of control in the UK hostile environment2
Who deserves exceptions in times of crisis? A comparison of policy responses to mitigate negative consequences for unemployed people and immigrants during the COVID-19 pandemic2
Book Review: Social Work with the Black African Diaspora by Washington Marovatsanga and Paul Michael Garrett2
Living Activism - Critical Social Policy introduction2
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